cix. ACAXTHACE^E. (C. B. Clarke ) 421 



nervosnm, Dalz. $ Gibs. Boml). FL 195, not of others. Eranthemum st> 

 n. 1-2, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



CENTBAL INDIA, alt. 1-4000 ft., common ; from the Bombay Ghats, Jacquemont, 

 and Belgaum, Ritchie, to Parasnath and South Behar, J. D. H. UPPEE ASSAM 

 Dibroo-mook, Griffith. 



Stems 2-4 ft., leafy. Leaves attaining 9 by 4 in., base decurrent, uppermost 

 much smaller, subsessile, often cordate, subentire, sometimes glabrate, densely 

 lineolate, sometimes pubescent on the nerves on both surfaces (the raphides in 

 such case obscure); nerves 7-9 pair. Spikes l-2 in., usually appearing long- 

 peduncled, the uppermost leaves being much reduced ; bracts 1 in., base rounded, 

 rigid, green not whitened but with much elevated nerves, apex divaricate, margins 

 not incurved; bracteoles in., linear-lanceolate. Calyx \ in., lobed half-way down; 

 segments lanceolate, whitened, minutely pubescent. Corolla 1| in., blueish, 

 pubescent or nearly glabrous. Anthers included. Capsule -f in., lower solid 

 cylindric portion short. The bracts in Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 177 "are characteristically 

 those of D. purpurascens, and in the description he says bracts ciliate. Moreover 

 Roxburgh got his E. puicheUum from "the drier parts of India." 



12. D. montanus, T. Anders, in Thivaites Ennm. 229, and in Journ. 



Linn. Soc. ix. 489 ; leaves elliptic attenuate at both ends subglabrous 

 lineolate, spikes linear or capitate viscidly hairy, bracts lanceolate linear- 

 acuminate green, calyx deeply divided segments linear green glandular hairy, 

 corolla If in. blue. Eranthemum capense, Linn. Amcen. Acad. i. 385. E. 

 montanum, Roxb. FL Ind. i. 110; Wall. Cat. 2492; Nees in Wall. PL 

 As. Ear. iii. 107, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 448 (excl. syn. Bot. Mag. t. 4031) ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 466; Dalz. ft Gibs. Boml. Fl. 195. E. fastigiatum, Spreng. 

 /SV/.sY. i. 89. Justicia fastigiata, Lamk. III. i. 41. J. montana, Roxb. Cor. 

 PL ii. 41, t. 176. 



W. and S. DECCAN and CEYLON, alt. 1-6000 ft., frequent ; Wallich, Wight, &c. 



Herb 2-3 ft., leafy ; upper branches, or peduncles quadrangular, usually white-hairy 

 or glandular. Leaves 4| by If in., all (except the floral) gradually attenuate at the 

 base ; nerves 6-7 pair ; petiole \-\\ in. Inflorescence extremely variable ; from 

 linear elongate spikes in compound corymbs or panicles with distant flowers to distant 

 short-oblong very dense heads, always more or less glandular-hairy ; bracts from 

 elliptic with linear tips to linear-lanceolate, apex subobtuse, viscid-pubescent not 

 whitened, lowest often 2-fld., bracts usually narrower in the elongate spikes broader in 

 the shortened ; bracteoles 3 in. Calyx % in. Corolla 1^ in., pale blue. Anthers 

 subexserted from the corolla-tube. Capsule -1 in. Seeds -^ in. diam. A variable 

 bpecies best distinguished by the long linear green viscidly hairy calyx-teeth.' The 

 high-level form with shortened spikes hardly differs from D. purpurascens by any 

 other character than this. The Javan D. salaccensis does not much differ. but by 

 the bracts being obscurely linear-spathulate upwards. 



VAE. Wightiana; leaves large ovate, corymb very compound with linear branches, 

 brncts linear, calyx and capsule small. Eranthemum Wightianum, Wall. Cat. 2 195, 

 letter A only ; Nee in Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 107, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 449. 

 Deccan Peninsula ?, Russell. This is a remarkable specimen, estimated a species by 

 Nees; it seems that T. Anderson never saw it; the remainder of Wall. Cat. 2495 

 with distant capitate heads being that which T. Anders, reduced to a Var. of D. 

 montana. In Russell's plant the leaves are 7 by 3.^ in., shortly suddenly attenuate at 

 the base, the uppermost subcordate ; the bracts are exactly linear, parallel-sided (in 

 D.montanus they are always dilated downwards); the corolla is not fully expanded, 

 but seems smaller than in D. montanus. 



VAE. concanensis, T. Anders, ms.; panicle compound, spikes linear interrupted, 

 bracts ovate abbreviated, not rarely 2-fld. Concan ; Laiv. 



13. D. Parish!!, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 489 ; leaves ovate 

 or elliptic acuminate at both ends undulate-crenate glabrous, spikes sub- 



